Beauty Connoisseur
Miao Yuyan held a sword, pink energy running through it, up to Mu Yu’s neck the moment he set foot outside the barrier.
“You’ll alert everyone if you attack me here, you know?”
Miao Yuyan grouchily materialised a lotus and tied his arm up to hers using strings from the lotus.
“Come on now. We’re all good kids, right?” suggested Mu Yu, not bothering to remove the shackles even though he could.
“No good man would peep on us bathing!” protested Miao Yuyan, storing away her jade piece, consequently restoring the formation to how it was.
“Who made you the jade piece, Sword Shadow Dust Gale or Eternally Youthful Ku Mu?”
“N-nobody. It’s… our sect’s sacred item.”
“Aaaah, so Eternally Youthful Ku Mu,” teased Mu Yu, knowing his adopted father would do anything for Miao Yuyan.
“N-no. I can’t drag him into th-. No, it wasn’t him.”
Mu Yu saw Tian Ran in Miao Yuyan’s mannerisms, cueing him into wondering how she was doing.
Miao Yuyan heard someone flying toward them. “Oh no, the guard is coming.”
“Who’s there?”
The Body Synthesis Realm cultivator summoned a plethora of lotuses, lightning up the duo before they could take cover. The maiden in black questioned, “What are you doing here, Junior Sister Yuyan? Who is he?”
“Ah, Senior Sister Nan Gong, I… I…”
Nan Gong contracted her brows. “Junior Sister, don’t tell me you and he are…”
Mu Yu devoured the lotus on his arm using death qi and then choked Miao Yuyan. “Hahaha, stay back. I’ve poisoned her with the aphrodisiac ‘lust inducer’. I haven’t had my chance to enjoy her yet, and you just had to show up. Come any closer and I will kill her!”
“Huh?” responded Miao Yuyan.
Mu Yu cast a formation on his hand choking Miao Yuyan, muting her.
“You used lust inducer on her? No wonder why she’s behaving strangely. Release her now, or I shall ensure not a speck of you remains!”
“I wouldn’t mind dying with her, hehehe,” responded Mu Yu, trying to help cover for Miao Yuyan.
“You disgust me! Wait… Are you the lecher who peeped on them bathing?” shouted Nan Gong.
“Damn straight! I’m that… that… that beauty connoisseur!”
“Beauty connoisseur my foot! Die, voyeur!”
“Thank heavens I can erase all this,” Mu Yu inwardly said, watching the disciples arriving on the scene. “If anyone moves, I’ll kill her right away!”
Mu Yu scampered back with Miao Yuyan, wanting to get out of there before the bigwigs arrived. He teleported them away and camouflaged them in a formation. Nan Gong continued to chase the two of them despite his threats.
“Let go of me!” Miao Yuyan barely enunciated.
Mu Yu released Miao Yuyan, whispering, “I’m trying to help you here!”
Miao Yuyan realised Mu Yu was trying to help already. Once she decided he might have had his reasons for the intrusion, she quietly informed, “Go left. The dangerous terrain makes it easy to escape from.”
Mu Yu planted a few formation foundations in the stone walls of the rocky area, casting an illusion formation that they could escape in. By the time Nan Gong found her way out of the slipshod formation, they had shaken her off.
The two set up a camp on a small dune far away from Secular Word Sect, where Xiaoshuai grilled a rabbit to feast on.
“That was a close one. If your violent Elder Ruo Shu showed up, I would’ve been buried there,” Mu Yu said, passing a grilled rabbit thigh to Miao Yuyan.
Miao Yuyan, staring at Mu Yu the entire time, refused to accept the thigh. “Who are you? Why did you infiltrate our sect and do something so shameless?”
“I’m not a pervert. I told you I was just passing by and happened to fall through the sky.”
“That’s hogwash! We have a formation that guards against outsiders, and falling from the sky is preposterous! Tell the tr-”
“Or what? You’re going to kill me after I helped you?”
“I didn’t need your help!”
“Yes, yes, I’ll get lost after we’re done eating, and you can go flirt with Eternally Youthful Ku Mu.” After taking a bite of his piece, Mu Yu noticed Xiaoshuai hadn’t even had a nibble. “Xiaoshuai, why aren’t you eating?”
“Well, it’s going to crawl out of your mouth after we leave and come back to life. Imagine what you just digested becoming…” Xiaoshuai smirked.
Mu Yu spat out his food and started rinsing his mouth repetitively.
“Eternally Youthful Ku Mu isn’t my lover!”
“My bad, it must be Sword Shadow Dust Gale, then.”
“What are you talking about? He wouldn’t even know me,” snapped Miao Yuyan.
“You recognise Feng Haochen?”
“Who? Why would I recognise him? What’s your deal?”
“Pretend I never said anything. Do you know where Ghost Gate is active around these areas?”
“You’re with Ghost Gate?!”
“Shell no. You would never find anyone half as handsome as me there.”
“True that, but you’re not as good looking as you think.”
Mu Yu hissed.
“Thanks for helping me. If you want to find someone from Ghost Gate, I suggest you visit Sunny City since the eight great sects typically have stations in every city. Alternatively, you can try five hundred kilometres north, where you will see a big, dark crater shrouded in mist. That’s Ghost Gate,” shared Miao Yuyan, flying off.
Mu Yu turned back to see Xiaoshuai heartily eating a rabbit. “Xiaoshuai, didn’t you say the stuff you digest would come out of your mouth…?”
“Ah, whateba (whatever). Hunger gums furs (hunger comes first),” Xiaoshuai answered with a full mouth.
“You were lying to me, weren’t you?”
“Nope.”
“You said that just to hog the rabbit!”
“No, the rabbit is just too small.”
“I bloody knew it! Give me a rabbit thigh!”
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